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The relations between Russia and the United States are not going through the best of times and, perhaps, we are at the bottom. without going into political details, it is worth paying attention to the fact that relations between countries are not only a dialogue of foreign ministers and the work of the embassy. This relationship between peoples, reflected in thousands of fates and personalities.

Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga on Monday claimed that at least 500,000 young girls and women may be infertile, following a tetanus vaccine administered by the government in 2014 and 2015.

While addressing the media in Nairobi, Odinga said girls and women aged between 14 and 49 from the fastest growing populations in the country will not have children, because of a state-sponsored sterilization exercise that was sold to the country as a tetanus vaccination.

Burmese government seeks to drive down the Rohingya birth rate, as well as drive them out of the country

Jonathan AbbamonteMarch 28, 2018

Northern Myanmar—the country we used to call Burma—is the site of a brutal and ongoing ethnic cleansing campaign. It is well known that the Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic minority from the north-western Burmese state of Rakhine, are systematically persecuted and that large numbers are fleeing across the border to India.

Up to two-thirds of sub-Saharan Africa’s 1.1 billion population want to migrate to Europe or to the United States, with millions planning to make the move in the next five years.

Around half of people in Kenya, Tanzania, Senegal, and South Africa, and three quarters of those questioned in Ghana and Nigeria, want to immigrate to the U.S. or Europe, according to a study by Pew Research Centre published Thursday.

Around 40 per cent of those in Senegal, Ghana, and Nigeria who want to leave said they intend to do so in the next five years.

In his homily at Tuesday morning Mass, Pope Francis reflected on the blessing of fertility and the dangers of going down the path of self-imposed barrenness as some modern nations have done.

The Pope reminded his congregation in the chapel at his Saint Marta residence in the Vatican that the very first commandment God gives to man is to “be fruitful and multiply.” Fruitfulness in the Bible is always a blessing, he continued, because “where there is God, there is fruitfulness.”

The Chamber of Deputies adopted on Tuesday, May 9, the citizens’ initiative that aims to change the definition of family in Romania’s Constitution.

The project passed with 232 votes in favor, 22 against, and 13 abstentions, reports local Agerpres. However, the Senate also has to vote on this initiative before a national referendum will be called to have Romanians decide if they agree or not to making this change in the Constitution.

Turkey is passing through a phase that all developed countries have passed through. The demographic transformation of the country is partially due to the increase in the quality of life and improvements in healthcare and social services

Discussion of the project of the transfer of the capital of Russia to another place in Moscow caused great interest among the residents of the country and from the public arena gradually turns into a political one.

More and more influential politicians and public figures express their views on this issue, and among them supporters of the transfer are the overwhelming majority.The most complete overview of the opinions of Russian politicians is available on the website "Business Quarter".